A tool to aid redesign of flexible transport services to increase efficiency in rural transport service provision
| Autor: | Cheng Zeng, Richard Mounce, C. David Emele, Steve Wright, John D. Nelson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Accident prevention
media_common.quotation_subject Service provision Aerospace Engineering Poison control 02 engineering and technology 020204 information systems 0502 economics and business 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering media_common Service (business) 050210 logistics & transportation Cost efficiency business.industry Applied Mathematics 05 social sciences Subsidy Environmental economics Payment Computer Science Applications Control and Systems Engineering Public transport Automotive Engineering Business Software Information Systems |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems. 22:175-185 |
| ISSN: | 1547-2442 1547-2450 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/15472450.2017.1410062 |
| Popis: | Rural areas generally have lower and more dispersed demands for travel which cannot sustain conventional public transport services and consequently have a greater number of flexible and demand responsive transport services operating. These services usually operate on a stand-alone basis, are often subsidized and are typically only accessible by certain passenger types or for specific trip purposes. This generally results in uncoordinated and inefficient transport provision overall. The Flexible integrated transport services (FITS) system featured in this paper has been designed to address this problem. FITS can be used as a planning tool to assess potential benefits from relaxing operating constraints (e.g., a service's operating boundaries), which can potentially suggest service redesign. It also includes the capacity to assign subsidy payments on a trip by trip basis to increase cost efficiency whilst meeting a greater proportion of transport needs. The case study in the paper focusses on transp... |
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